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Barunga is a festival like no other. Organisers say it's actually three festivals in one: where sport, music and culture are celebrated over the June long weekend. Barunga is also the place where the former Prime Minister Bob Hawke committed his government to negotiating a treaty with Aboriginal ...

This year the Barunga Festival celebrated its 31st instalment by observing the role women play in remote Indigenous communities. Under the theme of Celebrating Women, the program of events featured a number of female entertainers across the two musical stages in the remote Northern Territory ...

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Alick Tipoti is perhaps the most renowned artist from the Torres Strait working today. One of his traditionally inspired masks has been put on permanent display in the British Museum. While he was in London, Alick performed a ritual with his dance troupe - in the presence of sacred ancestral masks ...

Aboriginal art history has largely been written by anthropologists - or people in the right place at the right time. A new philanthropic fund aims to bridge the cross-cultural gap in the art historical record by documenting the work of some of Australia's greatest living artists. The head of ...

Jared Thomas is one of the busiest authors around. Earlier this year he travelled to the Tiwi Islands with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to collaborate with a group of young women on a book called Shallow In the Deep End. Hes been working with basketballer Patty Mills - who plays with the San ...

Professor Angela Davis is a leading intellect on the prison system in the US, as well as an icon of the black liberation movement. In the 1970s she was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. She spoke with RN Drive about how that experience informed her advocacy for the abolishment of prisons. She ...

The brother of a 14-year-old boy who says he was forcibly stripped and isolated for long periods, is asking why no charges have been laid by the Northern Territory police since more details about alleged abuse in Don Dale detention centre emerged this year. ...